Data Analytics

We are proud to introduce John Zaleski, PhD, CAP, CPHIMS, Chief Analytics Officer of Bernoulli Enterprise, Inc., as the newest member of Health Solutions Research, Inc.’s Board of Advisors! John’s Role on HSR’s Board HSR has come a long way in our slightly over 2 years in operation. In fact, with our proprietary Geospatial data […]

I recently returned from the Advanced Healthcare Analytics Summit (AHA) in Boston, Mass where I had the privilege to present the GeoHealth Dashboard and our current work towards addressing the Opioid Epidemic. The 2-day event was evenly split between speakers discussing the benefits data analytic approaches can bring to medicine and those, like ourselves, who […]

The opioid epidemic in the United States is well documented, certainly appears unstoppable and is only getting worse. Based on research into the epidemic and current responses at Health Solutions Research, we are confident we have a solution. In building our solution, we started by truly trying to understand the problem. According to the American […]

Much of the press on the future of healthcare states that robots and computers will take over the practice of medicine. Well, no evolution is without challenges – as seen in a recent Wall Street Journal article titled, “Hospital Falters in Bid to Use AI Tech” about the MD Anderson Cancer Center’s experience with IBM Watson’s recent […]

We received word today that HSR has been nominated for the Maryland Tech Council’s (TCM) Emerging Company award, based in large part on our GIS platform, GeoHealth Dashboard. We are truly honored and humbled by this nomination. The GeoHealth Dashboard is a Geographic Information System (GIS) with a data analytic engine that merges demographic data […]

I’ve attended a few of the HIMSS mHealth Summits, since they took place at the National Harbor resort in my home state of Maryland, but had not been to the main HIMSS conference before. Those who have been to both know that mHealth does not prepare you for HIMSS. HIMSS17 – the 17th annual HIMSS […]

Both Ram and I presented papers at the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI2017) conference that wrapped up earlier today in Orlando, FL and are happy to report that our talk our GeoHealth Dashboard was well received indeed. The GeoHealth Dashboard My talk focused on the GeoHealth Dashboard we have built over the past […]

We are speaking, and for the first time, at the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI-2017) conference next week in Orlando, Florida on Friday, February 17th. This is the flagship conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and immediately precedes the HIMSS 17 conference that we are also attending. […]

The opioid-abuse epidemic, both from illicit opioids (e.g., heroin) as well as prescription narcotics (e.g., Vicodin, Oxycodone), in the US is well documented. In addition to addiction treatment programs, a software tool has also been designed to help combat this epidemic – the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP). What is the PDMP? At a high […]

Quite simply, Medical GIS is the application of Geographic Information Systems into the healthcare arena and fall under the broad “Health IT” umbrella. This, of course, just pushes the question back to what is GIS and what can it do for healthcare. What is GIS? The definition of GIS is “a system designed to capture, […]

Ever wonder why Health IT hasn’t revolutionized healthcare as IT has most every industry in the world? We do – and finding how IT can still improve healthcare is one of the reasons Health Solutions Research exists. Information Technology, and advances in technology in general,typically decreases costs throughout the value chain from supplier through consumer, […]

The accuracy rate for information contained within an electronic health records system (EHR) is only 50%. That is, only half that data can be assumed to be accurate – the rest is wrong. A February 27th article in Modern Healthcare highlights some of the reasons why, within an Emergency Room (ER) setting at least- • […]